How Chown Recursively Change File/Directory Ownership in Linux

Linoxide
1 min readJan 30, 2019

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The chown command in Linux is used to change the ownership and group ownership of a files/directories. In Linux, all files, directories and processes (which are again files) are owned by users. The group is a set of users that share the same access permissions (i.e., read, write and execute) for that objects(files/directories).

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